Mail won't stop downloading old mail

I just upgraded to IOS 5 on my iPad2. I have a number of mail accounts set up. When i open up the mail program it checks for new mail and then it uploads hundreds of old mail as if I haven't read them before and I have to painstakingly delete them one at a time. When I open up mail later on it continues to do the smae thing with the same mail!
1) Is there anyway to convince the Mail program tha I only want new mail starting from today?
2) Is there any way to bulk delete mail rather than one at a time?
This problem is also compounded by how Mail marks new mail.  My two mail services are Optonline. And Gmail.  Where Optonline puts a solid blue circle in front of ecery new piece of mail. My Gmail does nothing to note new mail, it's just there. So
3) How can I get Gmail to mark new mail, so that I know I have some without having to check it all of the time and read the date stamps?

What is your account type - POP or IMAP?

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